Human Resources Business Partner

Advocate Group; Alfreton CP; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

The Advocate Group is seeking an HR Business Partner to collaborate with site leadership and drive people strategies in a fast-paced FMCG environment.

You will provide expert employee relations guidance, support workforce planning, and embed a high-performance culture across production teams, while ensuring governance and reporting.

Qualifications

• Proven HR Business Partner experience within a large, complex organisation.
• Strong employee relations expertise with the ability to manage complex cases confidently and professionally.
• The ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on operational delivery.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the credibility to influence at all levels.
• Resilience, sound judgement and the ability to manage competing priorities independently.
• A proactive, solutions-focused mindset with strong coaching capability.
• A passion for driving performance, engagement and continuous improvement across industrial teams.

Responsibilities

• Partnering with site leadership to understand operational goals and workforce requirements
• Supporting workforce planning activity, including hiring timelines, capability mapping and resource profiling
• Providing expert advice and guidance across all employee relations matters
• Building strong relationships with managers and employee representatives, maintaining visible presence across the production environment
• Embedding a high-performance culture through coaching, performance review support, development boards and succession planning
• Supporting reward and recognition processes, including pay review and bonus cycles
• Identifying learning and development needs and supporting delivery of capability initiatives aligned to safety and compliance standards
• Supporting organisational development and audit activity, ensuring governance standards, accurate record-keeping and effective reporting

Skills

HR Business Partner

Employee relations

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Coaching

Performance management

Continuous improvement

Industrial experience

Job description

Would you like to join one of the world’s most iconic FMCG and confectionery businesses, home to some of the most recognisable brands loved by consumers across the globe?

With a rich heritage built on quality, innovation and an entrepreneurial spirit, this is an opportunity to join a high-performing organisation where people are at the heart of continued growth and success.

As the HR Business Partner, you will collaborate with Industrial leaders to help deliver the site’s strategic objectives through effective, commercially focused people practices.

The Role:

• Partnering with site leadership to understand operational goals and workforce requirements
• Supporting workforce planning activity, including hiring timelines, capability mapping and resource profiling
• Providing expert advice and guidance across all employee relations matters
• Building strong relationships with managers and employee representatives, maintaining visible presence across the production environment
• Embedding a high-performance culture through coaching, performance review support, development boards and succession planning
• Supporting reward and recognition processes, including pay review and bonus cycles
• Identifying learning and development needs and supporting delivery of capability initiatives aligned to safety and compliance standards
• Supporting organisational development and audit activity, ensuring governance standards, accurate record-keeping and effective reporting

About You:

• Proven HR Business Partner experience within a large, complex organisation
• Strong employee relations expertise with the ability to manage complex cases confidently and professionally
• The ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on operational delivery
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the credibility to influence at all levels
• Resilience, sound judgement and the ability to manage competing priorities independently
• A proactive, solutions-focused mindset with strong coaching capability
• A passion for driving performance, engagement and continuous improvement across industrial teams

The Advocate Group is a leading recruitment partner, based in the UK, to the FMCG and consumer product sectors. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age. By applying for this role, you are agreeing to our Privacy Policy, which can be found on our website. Please note that The Advocate Group is acting as an employment agency in relation to this vacancy.